Re: From unstable to Etch

[Florian Kulzer <florian@molphys.leidenuniv.nl>]

On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 18:48:04 +0100, Robert Epprecht wrote:
> macondo writes:

[...]

> I have a couple of partitions and will try an etch install later on,
> but I do not want to lose my working sid system... Well I can always
> clone it to another partition and try to downgrade it to etch.
> 
> > Before you install from scratch, try this, it worked for me:
> > http://bertgarcia.com/2006/10/03/giga-meet-etch
> 
> That's about the way I thought it should work. Why is the pinning needed?

A package pin > 1000 tells apt that it is OK to downgrade packages in
order to install the pinned version (see the section "How APT Interprets
Priorities" from "man apt_preferences").

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Regards,
          Florian